by Tom Diederich | Dec 16, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Live
I attended the OpenStack Paris summit last month (Percona had a booth there). It was my first opportunity to meet face-to-face with this thriving community of developers and users. I’m proud that Percona is part of this open source family and look forward to...
by Tom Diederich | Dec 15, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Live
The many hours of intensive tutorials, led by some of the top minds in MySQL, have always been a major draw each year to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. And 2015’s event will be no exception. Percona Live 2015 runs April 13-16 in Santa Clara, Calif....
by Kortney Runyan | Dec 9, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Live
On behalf of the OpenStack Live Conference Committee, I am excited to announce the sneak peek schedule for the inaugural OpenStack Live 2015 Conference! This new annual conference, running in parallel with the already established Percona Live MySQL Conference and...
by Terry Erisman | Nov 11, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The Percona Live MySQL Conference in Silicon Valley (April 13-16, 2015) features a full day of tutorial sessions and three full days with keynote talks and breakout sessions from leading MySQL experts from around the world. Birds of a Feather sessions, two networking...
by Matt Griffin | Nov 10, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
November is a busy month of events for Percona. Conferences in Moscow, London, Paris, Las Vegas, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo mean our experts are racking up the frequent flyer miles meeting users of Percona software from around the world, sharing our insights on...
by Tim.Callaghan | Oct 16, 2014 | MySQL
In a few weeks I’m presenting “Performance Benchmarking: Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned” at Percona Live London 2014 (November 3-4). I continue to learn lessons and improve my benchmarking capabilities, so the content is a full upgrade from my...
by Tom Diederich | Aug 15, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
Twice each year members of the global open-source community converge on London in November and Santa Clara in April to network with, and learn from, some of the world’s most experienced and accomplished system architects, developers and DBAs. And now it’s time for YOU...
by Jon Tobin | Apr 21, 2014 | MySQL
Three weeks ago I had the privilege of attending my first Percona Live MySQL conference, which was incredible! In particular, there were two things that I found impressive about the conference. First, was the amount of knowledge sharing and support that MySQL users...
by Tim.Callaghan | Apr 4, 2014 | MySQL
The MySQL community continues to amaze me, everyone is friendly and always willing to answer questions and help others. It’s always nice to meet people in-person that I’ve met virtually in the last 12 months. Percona Live 2014 MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara...
by Tom Diederich | Apr 4, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Live
I spoke with Facebook database engineer Yoshinori Matsunobu here at Percona Live 2014 today about a range of topics, including MySQL at Facebook, the company’s recent move to WebScaleSQL, new MySQL flash storage technologies – and why attending the Percona...
by Tim.Callaghan | Mar 5, 2014 | MySQL
I’ve been a little behind in recent blogging efforts, and realized that in less than a month we’ll be back at Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo 2014, aka PLMCE. Last year’s PLMCE was my first, as well as the event where Tokutek announced the...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 30, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 is just two months away. I’m very excited about this year’s event which continues our tradition of open technical discussions and inviting all parties to the table. We have a great amount of technical talks...
by Tom Diederich | Dec 2, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Live
The MySQL community came together last month for two days of outstanding technical tutorials and sessions at Percona Live London. And now many of those MySQL presentations are available for free download. This year’s London conference saw a 20 percent spike in...
by Dave Rosenlund | Nov 8, 2013 | MySQL
Attending Percona Live in London next week? Don’t miss the chance to hear Tokutek’s Vice President of Engineering, Tim Callaghan, discuss how to use your MySQL knowledge to become an instant MongoDB Guru and the advantages of using Fractal Tree® indexes in...
by Tim.Callaghan | May 15, 2013 | MySQL
I finally posted a copy of the slides from my Percona Live presentation, “Creating a Benchmarking Infrastructure that Just Works”. The PDF is available via this link. The content comes from my personal experiences over many years benchmarking and testing...
by Tokutek | May 2, 2013 | MySQL
Last week I had to present a tutorial at Percona Live 2013, a presentation at SkySQL’s MySQL & Cloud Database Solution Day and last but not least, a presentation on a Saturday morning at Linuxfest Northwest. It wasn’t easy, but giving the presentations after...
by Leif.Walsh | Apr 26, 2013 | MySQL
Since we had the pleasure to announce that TokuDB is open source on Monday, it’s been a thrilling ride. With several members of the team out west all week, back on the east coast we’ve been seeing quite a lot of questions, suggestions, and exciting results. Here are...
by Tokutek | Apr 25, 2013 | MySQL
We wanted to thank everyone for naming Tokutek the Corporate Contributor of the Year 2013 for ongoing contribution to the MySQL community. The MySQL Community Awards are given annually to the people and companies that support the MySQL ecosystem. The MySQL Community...
by Tokutek | Apr 25, 2013 | MySQL
Thanks to all of those who came to the lightning talks this evening. A special thanks to Erin Grace O’Malley O’Neill for the great performance. Thanks also to @NuoDB and @geobdz (whose photo is below) for tweets. Stay tuned for the video as well…. MySQL...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Apr 24, 2013 | MySQL
Since we announced that TokuDB is now open source, there has been a lot of positive feedback (thanks!) and also some questions about the details. I want to take this opportunity to give a quick high level guide to describe what our repositories on Github are. Here are...
